Microfinance Guru
Location: US, , 
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
Function: Training

Company profile:
The Intersect Fund is a nonprofit organization that empowers entrepreneurs to build strong businesses so they can generate income, build assets, and spark dramatic social change in their communities.We have offices in Newark, NJ, New Brunswick, NJ, and San Francisco, CA.

Job description:
We’re hiring a microfinance expert to teach, coach, and consult with college students to develop strong campus MFIs. Campus MFIs are teams of college students that go off-campus and find people who need help. They spend time and motivate, give basic financial advice, and lend small amounts of money they have raised. Lend for America (LFA), a program of The Intersect Fund, exists to strengthen campus MFIs and ensure quality service delivery for clients. Most campus MFI leaders are smart and motivated, but don't have access to useful resources that can answer their questions and help to develop their organizations. Your job as our Microfinance Guru will be to establish Lend for America as the go-to resource to build effective microfinance organizations and help campus MFI staff meet their performance goals. This is a leadership position at a fast-growing organization and is an excellent opportunity to grow and further develop a proven program. We’re looking for someone who can work with students from our 24 member organizations located in 17 states and coach student entrepreneurs who call us every week to ask how to launch new campus MFIs. The position can be based in San Francisco, CA and located at our office in SOMA or can be virtual.Responsibilities• Develop online training resources: Your job is to improve our existing Start-Up Kit (currently hosted online here #URL_42b8baf9c0006bf6b8b0cfacf55bfb8c31e09a43638bd49d57f91fa5fe2a5afc#) and publish new material such as case studies documenting existing campus MFIs experiences and lessons learned. You will plan and deliver online webinars on a regular basis for campus MFIs to learn loan due diligence, risk management, collections best practices, credit building concepts, and other relevant topics.• Travel to do Site Visits: You will conduct on-site technical assistance visits to member universities campuses and spend 2-4 days with student staff teams. To receive a site visit, members are selected through a competitive process. Planning and coordination for the visit agenda starts several weeks in advance of the visit and includes extensive research and document collection about the member organization. • Own the LFA Summit Agenda: You will plan our annual conference agenda, which is a multi-track two-day training conference for students to learn from experts in U.S. microfinance to gain skills and knowledge they can bring back to their campus MFIs. It will be your job to recruit guest speakers and work with them to ensure their session plans meet expectations.• Create Training Program for Lending Platform: We are creating an online system to streamline loan delivery for campus MFIs. You will write material to train new users on the system and guide them through best practices for making loans. • Manage Data Collection: It will be part of your job to handle gathering output and outcome data from member organizations. You will analyze data and publish annual reports to share takeaways and results. 

Requirements:
Qualifications You are an expert in technical aspects of microfinanceYou are knowledgeable about low-income communities in the U.S.You have the patience, charisma, and skill needed to lead a classroom-based training and have one-on-one coaching conversations with college studentsAbility to clearly communicate complex concepts in layman’s languageExperience with research, data collection, and analysisAbility to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty and ambiguity

Benefits:
Lend for America is an equal opportunity employer and offers a competitive salary and benefits, commensurate with experience and skills. We don't count vacation or sick days.